Thanks for the reply Mitchell! Definitely don't want my criticism to come off as unconstructive. As I mentioned, we'll continue to use Terraform; I'm optimistic it'll improve as Hashicorp iterates. I'm just naturally conservative coming from an ops background.

I try to pick boring technologies that are battle tested through years of tech sector use; there's no glory for being on the bleeding edge, with only pain when things go south. So goes the ops struggle.